Stardust Demon looks fantastic for retro metroidvania adventure fans gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/starโฆ
#IndieGame #Metroidvania #Linux
Stardust Demon looks fantastic for retro metroidvania adventure fans
Planned to release sometime this year, Stardust Demon is a retro-style metroidvania adventure game inspired by Cave Story, Zelda, and many more. Featuring cute chibi characters wrapped in some dark and spooky undertones.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Asymmetrical indirect control RTS game Roboden now Steam Deck Verified (it's also free and open source) gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/asymโฆ
Asymmetrical indirect control RTS game Roboden now Steam Deck Verified
How about a free game to add to your library? Roboden is an asymmetrical indirect control real-time strategy game about robot colonies and it's now Steam Deck Verified.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Adventure of Rikka - The Cursed Kingdom is one for classic Zelda lovers gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/adveโฆ
#IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck #Zelda
Adventure of Rikka - The Cursed Kingdom is one for classic Zelda lovers
Do you like classic action-adventure puzzle games like the older Zelda titles? Be sure to check out Adventure of Rikka - The Cursed Kingdom.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Athenian Rhapsody is one of the wackiest games I've seen for a while gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/atheโฆ
Athenian Rhapsody is one of the wackiest games I've seen for a while
Releasing May 14th, Athenian Rhapsody certainly caught my attention in the GamingOnLinux inbox with a tagline of "Make friends and catch IBS".Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The move from a free-living environment to an endosymbiotic relationship has profound effects on bacterial function.
This #PLOSBiology Unsolved Mystery from John P McCutcheon &co explores how bacterial endosymbionts work with so few genes. #symbiosis
How do bacterial endosymbionts work with so few genes?
The move from a free-living environment to a long-term residence inside a host eukaryotic cell has profound effects on bacterial function.plos.io
Superhero strategy game Capes confirmed for release on May 29th gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/supeโฆ
Superhero strategy game Capes confirmed for release on May 29th
Capes is an XCOM-like superhero strategy game coming from Spitfire Interactive, comprised of key creatives behind the Hand of Fate franchise. It has a new trailer and a release date now!Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Take back 1944 occupied Poland in '63 Days', will be optimised for Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/takeโฆ
Take back 1944 occupied Poland in '63 Days', will be optimised for Steam Deck
63 Days is a new action strategy game coming from developer Destructive Creations who previously made War Mongrels and Ancestors Legacy.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
How to protect yourself from deepfake scams in video calls? ๐ต๏ธ
In our guide, we explain how deepfakes work, where you might encounter them, and how to protect yourself from this increasingly popular scam.
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How to protect yourself against deepfake scams in video calls - Nextcloud
Read out guide to learn what deepfake scams are, how spot a scammer, and how to protect yourself with the right techniques and software.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
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โThe reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaksโ
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This ZSH Plugin Manager Is Really SUS #Linux #YouTube
This video was only possible because of the thread by @dylnuge
This ZSH Plugin Manager Is Really SUS
I don't know if there is actually anything malicious about this project but after digging into the zsh plugin manager zi it does look a little bit sus and ma...YouTube
Fascinating - I'll have to make time to dig into this one later.
"Many purported pseudogenes in bacterial genomes are bona-fide genes"
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Many purported pseudogenes in bacterial genomes are bona fide genes - BMC Genomics
Background Microbial genomes are largely comprised of protein coding sequences, yet some genomes contain many pseudogenes caused by frameshifts or internal stop codons.BioMed Central
Retos y oportunidades para la comunicaciรณn comunitaria indรญgena en Centroamรฉrica
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Retos y oportunidades para la comunicaciรณn comunitaria indรญgena en Centroamรฉrica
Texto y fotos por: Mariana Lรณpez Lima Con la finalidad de tejer redes, fortalecer la unidad y las acciones de incidencia y organizacionales de las radios comunitarias indรญgenas de Centroamรฉrica, elโฆ#Comunicares
Are you a Nextcloud fan, curious about the upcoming Hub 8 version, and located near Kiel, Germany? ๐
Join a public viewing of the Nextcloud Hub 8 release, where you can connect with a community of industry professionals! ๐ฅณ
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Public Viewing: Nextcloud Hub 8 Launch | LinkedIn
Am 24. April 2024 stellt Nextcloud seine neue Version Nextcloud Hub 8 vor. Aus diesem An-lass laden wir alle ein, die sich fรผr Nextcloud interessieren: Hosting-Anbieter, Systemhรคuser, professionelle Nutzer in Unternehmen und Verwaltungen sowie Nextclโฆwww.linkedin.com
"Mountain in the Jungle, Habitable exomoon."
Ekaterina Valinakova, Public domain via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2aUp7my
La Pluralitรฉ des Mondes Habitรฉs by Camille Flammarion (1877 Didier edition).
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La Pluralitรฉ des Mondes Habitรฉs : Camille Flammarion : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
La Pluralitรฉ des Mondes Habitรฉs.รtude ou l'on Expose les Conditions d'Habitabilitรฉ des Terres Cรฉlestes.Discutรฉes au Point de Vue de l'Astronomie, de la...Internet Archive
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Nous sommes heureux de voir que ces recherches nouvelles s'ajoutent en faveur de la thรฉorie de l'existence de la vie sur les autres globes de l'espace, et nous croyons intรฉressant de prรฉsenter ici cette importante communication.
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Me seeing yet another native vs proton argument appear:
I just wanna play games.
I think encouraging developers to provide native Linux builds is important, but there are definitely some technical details which we need to figure out on our side first.
Hopefully, with the growing popularity of Flatpak, this may eventually be solved.
Free Stars: Children of Infinity, sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters now on Kickstarter gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/freeโฆ
#PCGaming #Linux #FreeStars #StarControl
Free Stars: Children of Infinity, sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters now on Kickstarter
Pistol Shrimp Games, founded by Toys for Bob veterans, have today launched the Kickstarter campaign for Free Stars: Children of Infinity which is a direct sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters (Star Control 2).Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Screenshot of conversation from FS: COI with a purple amoeba-like alien and spider-like robot saying "Trust us. Not Them."
Response options:
โข For the sake of diplomacy, and because the other guy is right there.
โข I trust you both.
โข Given what you've just told me, trusting either of you is difficult.
โข Trust is earned. Preferably with Us.
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Cartography of generative AI ยท The popularisation of AI has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation & mystification ..
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Cartography of generative AI
The popularisation of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation and mystification.cartography-of-generative-ai.net
PAC-MAN Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs launches in early May gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/pac-โฆ
PAC-MAN Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs launches in early May
I know I'm going to be suckered into PAC-MAN Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs when it releases on May 8th, after previously being a Stadia exclusive.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
It took about 15 years but epic roguelike Caves of Qud is nearly done gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/it-tโฆ
#Roguelike #IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck
It took about 15 years but epic roguelike Caves of Qud is nearly done
Caves of Qud from developer Freehold Games and publisher Kitfox Games is approaching the 1.0 finishing line, and so their roadmap towards the release has been put up and it sounds really exciting.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Emulation tool RetroDECK brings in Ryujinx for Nintendo Switch, many other improvements gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/emulโฆ
Emulation tool RetroDECK brings in Ryujinx for Nintendo Switch, many other improvements
RetroDECK is one of the simplest options for getting various emulators set up on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux, and the latest release has lots of fun improvements to check out.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
It would be interesting if he talked about his funding sources or the business that allowed him to fund Telegram _only_ from his โpersonal savings,โ with hundreds of $mln a year over the years (as the official court documents for his cryptocurrency Ton say).
And how TG became de facto official in Russia after massive blockings and โdigital resistance,โ at the end of which Putin said โwe have an agreement.โ
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) Beta released gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/ubunโฆ
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) Beta released
Canonical is gearing up for the release of the next LTS (long term support) version of Ubuntu, with a first Beta now available for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat).Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Descent 3 has been made open source gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/descโฆ
Descent 3 has been made open source
Another classic has been given the open source treatment, with Descent 3 from Outrage Entertainment now available under the MIT license.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
1. I'm supposed to be finishing my taxes but I've got another four hours. So let's talk about an absolute disaster in the US science ecosystem.
The NIH's BRAIN (Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) suffered catastrophic budget cutsโunder Biden, no lessโand now is unlikely to fund any new grants and will likely cut funding to existing grantees.
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-eโฆ
From the BRAIN Director: Funding neuroscience in an uncertain budget climate | BRAIN Initiative
A message to the community from Dr. John Ngai, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) BRAIN Initiative.braininitiative.nih.gov
Half-Life remake Black Mesa has a big upgrade with DXVK 2.3.1, optimizations and bug fixes gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/halfโฆ
#BlackMesa #HalfLife #Linux #SteamDeck
Half-Life remake Black Mesa has a big upgrade with DXVK 2.3.1, optimizations and bug fixes
Crowbar Collective have released the Necro Patch for the Half-Life remake Black Mesa, which brings with it some essential bug fixes and some nice optimizations.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
"switching over Linux support to Proton"
Yeah... Not so much a fan of this. It might be easier but it's not the intended route.
@pieceofthepie Agreed.
I definitely want something that is supported well and targets the latest native libraries (even via API translations) instead of a not-well-supported build that statically links old libraries (and even older graphics libraries, like SDL1.x instead of SDL2.x, OpenGL instead of Vulkan), has input issues (lack of gamepad, odd mouse support), and doesn't necessarily work across different distributions.
(Former is Proton; latter is a typical "native port".)
@garrett @pieceofthepie "Only zealots demand native" is such a bad take.
There are several problems with Linux depending on Windows for the long-term health of Linux as a gaming platform. One of which is that we're constantly playing catchup with Windows APIs, we're also reinforcing Windows' dominance ("better Windows than Windows" doesn't work), and when there's a significant impedance mismatch (Wayland vs everything else), we're basically screwed in some respects.
@Conan_Kudo @garrett @pieceofthepie it's the most realistic take, most developers don't care - and why should they, we're not even 2% of the market on Steam, it's wildly ridiculous to go around demanding native ports that require development time and support time that costs money for such little return
You need to take a step back, take off the bias glasses you're wearing and look at the market.
@Conan_Kudo @garrett @pieceofthepie Yes, the IDEAL situation, is that developers target Linux directly and support it directly - but there's basically little reason for them to
That won't happen with less than 2% market, and hasn't happened for the massive vast majority of titles people want to play for the entire time i've run gamingonlinux.
Wine / Proton are also game preservation tools, and great ones too. They're also open source. Remember, most games are proprietary.
@Pyral @garrett @pieceofthepie So what... we should give up then? Because we only got this far with idealism. Idealism is the only thing really holding us to even making this work at all. There is no business sense for anything we're doing right now.
Idealism is how we're getting a more open and integrated NVIDIA driver. Idealism is how we're getting more places to use Linux. Idealism is how we actually make progress. There are varying degrees, but it's extremely important.
gaming is a very different cut-throat market, i have to be honest but itโs just really naive to keep demanding it
Big publishers want big money, weโre not that. Small indie devs work for scraps often, and putting time into a tiny market for so little gain is not worth it
Itโs not like a console, where it makes sense to have dedicated games, be realistic, Proton/Wine are open source and work *now*
@Conan_Kudo @pieceofthepie I'm also super happy that devs are embracing Linux โ Proton and native โ thanks to wanting to make sure their games work on a Steam Deck *somehow*.
Linux definitely isn't a lot of the market share on Steam, but it's still the second largest, under Windows and above macOS.
Also: Some games run so well in Proton compared to natively on Windows, that Windows folks are pulling pieces (like DXVK) over to Windows to get the games to run better (or at all).
@garrett @Conan_Kudo @pieceofthepie "support" is the main thing we want, it doesn't matter if it's "native" or run through Proton.
All games eventually end up having the developer move on from it, so in the end, Proton/Wine basically always win since you can just update that to improve the game for modern systems, unless the game is open source (which most are not)
Steam FPS Fest 2024 is live with tons of great discounts gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/steaโฆ
Steam FPS Fest 2024 is live with tons of great discounts
Another festival of games is live on Steam now with Steam FPS Fest 2024 running until April 22nd at 10am PT / 5pm UTC, and there's also plenty of demos for games to try too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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